September 30, 2020 – Book Bindings

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Dublin Core

Title

September 30, 2020 – Book Bindings

Subject

Tufts University. Tisch Library. Special Collections

Description

A selection of bindings, 15th - 19th centuries:

1. In memoriam, Alfred Tennyson, printed and bound at the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, NY, 1898

2. Sir Perecyvelle of Gales, printed by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press, 1895, and bound by Ellen Gates Starr, social reformer and co-founder of Hull House with Jane Addams

3. Native of Winby, Sarah Orne Jewett, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893

4. Poems on various subjects, Phillis Wheatley, Boston: A. Bell, 1777

5. Flagello militare, printed at Naples, 1676, in royal binding, from the library of Charles II, King of Spain (1661-1700)

6. De republica libri sex, Jean Bodin, printed at Frankfurt, 1609, with gauffered edges in a parchment binding

7. Cicero’s Rhetoric, printed at Lyon, 1560

8. Adages, Erasmus, printed at Geneva by Robert Estienne (Stephanus), 1558, in a blind-tooled leather binding that has lost its clasps

9. Several books of the Old Testament, with commentary, printed between 1501-1510, in its original chained binding, to prevent unauthorized removal from an institutional library

10. Tufts University MS 24, a Dominican miscellany copied in Italy with texts from two periods, c. 1280-1340 and 1450-1500.

Creator

Christopher Barbour

Source

Instagram: @Tischlibrary

Publisher

Tufts University. Tisch Library

Date

September 30, 2020

Contributor

Anna Minasyan

Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

Type

image

Coverage

2020
19th Century
18th Century
17th Century
16th Century
15th Century
14th Century
13th Century

Citation

Christopher Barbour, “September 30, 2020 – Book Bindings,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed November 23, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/5293.